Roberts

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Roberts, John Glover, Jr. Born 1955. American jurist who has served as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 2005.

Roberts, Kenneth 1885-1957. American writer noted for his historical novels about the Colonial period, including Northwest Passage (1937).

Roberts, Oral Born 1918. American evangelist who has preached widely on tours and radio and television broadcasts.

Roberts, Richard John Born 1943. British-born chemist. He shared a 1993 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that some genes are not continuous but instead contain sequences, known as introns, that do not function as codes for the formation of a protein.

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n. Plural form of Robert.

proper n. An English and Welsh patronymic surname from the given name Robert.

n. United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)

n. a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)

n. United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957)

n. United States evangelist (born 1918)

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ROBERTS: And here I was putting off buying a computer at Christmas because I thought jobs would come out with the MacWorld and say here's your brand new computer, Roberts, to make yours obsolete but he didn't.

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